From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG, NET] deadlock tearing down a bridged interface
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:44:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4880BA7A.3020909@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080718073724.GA5802@disturbed>
Dave Chinner wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I just deadlocked networking on a 2.6.24 kernel. Basically I
> was trying to restart the bridge interface I use for UML sessions
> because it wasn't passing packets. This happens occasionally
> when I leave a UML session too long in gdb, so I bounced the
> bridge to get it working again.
>
We have been chasing a refcount bug in 2.6.25 that only happens when
IPv6 module is loaded. If you are not actually using ipv6, try removing
it's
module from your /lib/modules/* directory and see if that fixes your
problem.
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-18 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-18 7:37 [BUG, NET] deadlock tearing down a bridged interface Dave Chinner
2008-07-18 15:44 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2008-07-19 1:17 ` Dave Chinner
2008-07-19 17:01 ` Ben Greear
2008-07-20 6:04 ` [RFC] netdev: debugging option Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-20 7:05 ` David Miller
2008-08-04 16:37 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-08-04 21:31 ` David Miller
2008-08-04 22:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-20 6:07 ` [BUG, NET] deadlock tearing down a bridged interface Stephen Hemminger
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